A lifelong worker in the IT field, there was only one place for Alan to go once he died. Back to work. Rather than keeping his ashes in a traditional urn or buried in the ground, his brother Sam had a brilliant idea: Alan’s final resting place would be a computer. Specifically, a classic-model SPARCstation workstation console.
The computer has become something of a family shrine, as you can see above. Coworkers and friends leave post-it notes for Alan on the console or slip them inside the floppy disk drive, there are pictures of him and his family around it, and rather than burying him, it’s become kind of a treasured tribute to his daughters. It’s equal parts endearing and morbid.
What sort of funerary arrangements might you be interested in, if you could pick your choice of urn?
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Some people still prefer the old fashioned, don’t go up in smoke coffin.
I knew someone who wanted to be a blue diamond in a ring, made from the carbon of his ashes. I thought that was weird, and kinda gross.
As for what I would pick, I haven’t really thought about it.
Posted by: Lynda | October 3rd, 2009 2:41 am |